No 6, 2011 I $5 Nature in the Balance Richard Louv champions restorative power of the great outdoors I HISTORIC IMAGES ONLINE I BASKETBALL REUNION Contents | November 2011 30 24 36 30 24 36 COVER STORY Point and Click Through The Boys Are Back Wild Idea Kansas Past in Town With his best-selling Last e Spencer Research Library A one-of-a-kind all-star Child in the Woods, journalist is digitizing its collections of basketball reunion had Richard Louv coined a term historical photographs and Allen Field House rocking— (nature decit disorder) and maps, making it easier than in September, of all times— energized a movement to get ever to steal a glimpse into the and featured a feel-good plot kids outside. His new book Sunower State’s bygone days. with a storybook ending: challenges adults to tap the Everybody won. tonic power of nature. By Chris Lazzarino By Chris Lazzarino By Steven Hill Cover illustration by Susan Younger Established in 1902 as e Graduate Magazine Volume 109, No. 6, 2011 ISSUE 6, 2011 | 1 November 2011 68 Publisher Kevin J. 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Email responses may be sent to Sharp Time, a crash course for reporters and more the Alumni Association, [email protected]. Letters appearing in the magazine may be edited for space and clarity. For letters published, we’ll send a gift of the KU 72 Glorious to View Magnet Game, a $15 value. Scene on campus ISSUE 6, 2011 | 3 Lift the Chorus Your Whenever we came along up and see some of the history opinion counts with dad to KU football games, and magic of the Hill. Please email us a note coming in from the south, just Linda L. Kerby, n’70, c’87 at [email protected] as we could see the red roof of Leawood to tell us what you think of the campus buildings we’d start your alumni magazine. singing the alma mater. Chris’ I with your article about Professor John- delightful article about Ted son’s tour of the campus Johnson in the latest issue. evoked the same warm feeling. Your article made him come Cold subs now George E. Nettels Jr., e’50 alive on the page and I almost Pittsburg was there taking the walking T J’ tour. It was an outstanding Bakery [“e nose knows,” Y to article and my compliments to Jayhawk Walk, issue No. 4] capture the essence of Ted you again. did not mention Joe’s subma- Delight-Ted Johnson in a wonderfully Diana S. Rinehart, d’51 rine or hoagie sandwiches, illustrated and well-written Tulsa, OK which were a popular treat for W I article. As a member of the us dorm rats. In 1960 there was Chris Lazzarino’s article about tour group that particular day, no Sunday night meal in the his walking tour with Professor I applaud you for being able to Restoration dorms and many of us would Ted Johnson [“A Beautiful give a concise overview of the round up a driver and go to Mind,” issue No. 5], I felt the event. I have attended several applauded Joe’s for their submarine nostalgia that came from my previous tours and I learn supper. e subs were as dad’s love for KU that was something new each and every A “Overdue famous, I think, as the passed down to his children. time. R & R” by Chris Lazzarino doughnuts. KU became for my dad a A quotation that I saw [Hilltopics, issue No. 5,], I am LaRoux K. Gillespie, pseudo father, replacing the recently on Facebook sums up very much looking forward to e’65, m’68 father he had lost at 6. my impression of Dr. Johnson: visiting the KU campus to see Kansas City, Mo. Working his way through Angry people want to show the newly restored Campanile Editor’s Note: Let us not forget KU and a short tour in the you how powerful they are. upon my return trip to the egg salad sandwiches, either. army during World War I, he Loving people want to show Lawrence from ailand in Mmm-mmm. graduated in 1921 having been you how powerful you are. December. football captain the fall of I hope that students who ank you to the ocers of 1920. He was 27. walk the campus daily will look the Collegiate Veterans Association and Mr. Je Still linked Weinberg, whom I met over 30 years ago, at Miss Maude T I Elliott’s home near the campus, contribution to the University for following through with by Tom and Judy Bowser [see such a great project! Hilltopics, page 15]. ank you to the sta of I did not know Tom or Judy Kansas Alumni, too, for while at KU, but met them continuing to mail the maga- both shortly aer. It was late zines to me in Cha-am, 1974 and I was a relatively new Petchburi, ailand. I have KU graduate. I applied at Blue truly enjoyed reading your ne Cross and Blue Shield of and informative magazines. Kansas City for a three-month Vallapa Shaisiri Herzog, temporary job and was c’76, s’80 fortunate enough to work for Cha-am, Petchburi, Thailand Tom Bowser. Who would Johnson know the temporary job would 4 | KANSAS ALU MNI last eight-and-a-half years and return of the blue helmet! with this rst-rate lm in July, we published our readers’ lead to a lifelong career in Daniel K. Ralston, f’62 your next issue. memories of enchanting, health care. Paradise, Calif. Peter Haggart, g’63 life-changing interactions with It is the common bond that Moscow, Idaho professors or fellow students that we nd in one another that Editor’s Note: Not to worry, made all the dierence in their KU Editor’s Note: “In the Abstract” experience. Send us yours and connects us. In the ’60s and Mr. Ralston and other alumni from around the country who appeared in issue No. 5, 2002, of we’ll continue to share them as ’70s there was no World Wide Kansas Alumni upon publication space allows. Web, no LinkedIn, no Face- called and wrote after being startled by the Jayhawks’ unique of The New Bill James Histor- book, yet we were and still are uniforms during their nationally ical Baseball Abstract. That was connected. We were linked by televised game Oct. 1 vs. Texas before James, c’73, d’75, hired on H the common experiences, the Tech: The one-time-only as an adviser to the Boston Red “Moment in Time”: shared knowledge, the love of throwback uniforms celebrated Sox and nearly a decade before e very rst week of my the Crimson and Blue. I salute the 50th anniversary of KU’s first “Moneyball.” Guess you could say junior year in 1970, my ance and thank you, Tom and Judy. bowl victory, against Rice in the we were ahead of the curve. called o our engagement with While it has been many 1961 Bluebonnet Bowl. no explanation. years since I have seen Tom Most of that year was and Judy, I am proud to say Hooray for Boofie disastrous for me, as I settled that I know them and consider into a deep depression and them friends and wish them I memo- didn’t deal well with the loss. I well. ries that I read Cynthia missed most of my classes and Rock Chalk Jayhawk, KU! Sinclair’s letter [“Iconic ended up dropping two. Marcia Robertson Tremonti, c’73 anniversaries,” Li the Chorus, Another I tried to drop was Jacksonville, Fla. issue No. 3]. Paul Sinclair was required for my major. It was one of the nest people I ever Economic Geography, and knew while attending KU.